cannot read manpages

Luca Ferrari fluca1978 at infinito.it
Tue Jan 15 13:18:31 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 15 January 2008 astraljava at kapsi.fi's cat, walking on the keyboard, 
wrote:
> Isn't that usually a symlink to `less` or `more`, or what have you? Maybe
> via /etc/alternatives. In this case it would mean that you don't have that
> symlink set, so try first:
>
> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/pager
>
> ...and if that's not set either, then I guess you can do:
>
> $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/pager

I didn't know about the alternatives directory, and that fixed the problem. I 
tried also the apt-file search, as suggested by Gerald, but it didn't return 
anything.

Thanks,
Luca




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